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Everyone from the ambassador down that kent says he kept his concerns to himself. more transcripts, testimony from eu ambassador gordon sondland who said underoath that rudy giuliani was the president's point man on ukraine. sondland now says the president did hold up aid to that country in exchange for help investigating the bidens. president trump once called sondland a great american and highly respected, but yesterday he said he hardly knows the gentleman. then there's the president's own acting chief of staff mick mu mulvaney. he was supposed to testify yesterday. he was subpoenaed, but m...

Directly from the president or if he's confident that that's exactly what the president wanted? >> it's not certainly clear from his testimony because he says in his testimony he had no direct conversations with the president that he was the pointman of ukraine and it comes down to the secretary of state and bolton at the time and he's never contact with the president and he's smart enough to know that he shouldn't be talking about what he does and did not do with the president and that's exactly one of the gaps in his testimony is that they're just incomprehensible that he can do one thing an...

Activated. whole thing false alarm and passenge passengers and crew are safe. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. we'll see you tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we have breaking news in the house impeachment inquiry. the house of representatives released more than 300 pages of testimony in which the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor consistently and in detail describes the trump white house pushing the ukrainians in what taylor sees as a quid pro quo. a white house meeting...

U.s. aid would be withheld unless the president's political rivals were investigated. that's not what he said in his original testimony, so, why the change? he said his memory was refreshed. here's mary bruce on the hill. >> reporter: in an astounding reversal, the president's hand-picked pointman in ukraine is now admitting he presented the ukrainian government with a quid pro quo. gordon sondland, u.s. ambassador to the eu, says he told a top ukrainian official they would likely not receive nearly $400 million in military aid unless they publicly committed to investigate president trump's po...

Can lose for donald trump. the white house sending out talking points, last night on fox news sondland and ukrainian official were dismissed as some low level guy, and then willie of course lindsey talked about some guy. the some guy was the person that was running what john bolton described as rudy giuliani and donald trump's drug deal across europe. he was a guy that showed up. sondland was the guy that showed up across europe, and he was the president of the united states' point man on this, quote, drug deal, and lindsey graham is now claiming that he's a nobody after the guy himself has pr...